Why release the OpenDS Directory Server as open source?
Sun believes very strongly in the value of open source, and is one of the top contributors to open source software. Sun has committed to providing open source for most of its Java Enterprise Systems components including its market leading Directory Service product. Open source provides a number of benefits to the community: • Allows developers to cooperate freely with a minimum of legal restrictions. • Helps drive interest in the directory service solution and make it more appealing to organizations that prefer open source solutions. • Allows the community to more easily communicate what features they would like to see in OpenDS, and even gives them a chance to contribute at levels from developing core code, plugins, scripts, and even documentation. • Gives the community access to the source code so that it can more easily debug problems or answer questions that it might encounter. This increases code quality and security while reducing deployment costs. • Enables interested parties to
